Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Fascists always attack minorities, Which is an irony, 'Cos fascists are a minority.” — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
“No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.” — Nate Spears Copy Share Image
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“ Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Be my love, Be my life Be my happiness, Be my wife Be my sadness, Be my tear Be my sorrow, Be… — John Lee Delan Copy Share Image
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous,… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“You are my strength when I am weak You are my shield when I am hurting Whatever you say unto me Lord… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children,… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don’t heal. Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Who was this girl alone so late at night in search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
